Introduction
In the last few weeks, 13 resources have become available on the EOSC Portal. Researchers from many different fields can benefit from the newly available resources in science categories ranging from the Natural Sciences and Engineering & Technology to the Social Sciences. Some of these resources deal with computing, software and workflows, others cover education & training and more.
Continue reading for a summary of the latest resources available on the EOSC Marketplace and see how they can be useful for your research needs.
13 new resources
Modelling Service for Water Supply Systems (MSWSS)
This web-based service helps water infrastructure operators and researchers analyse hazardous events and may be used to assess water utilities risk management. This is all possible through a collaborative environment for modelling and analysing Water Supply Systems.
Other details:
- Target users: Researchers
- Access types: Virtual
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-7
OpenBio.eu
This is an open and free repository service, whereby researchers can directly access executable and re-usable research objects (ROs). With OpenBio.eu, you no longer need to download, configure, compile, install and validate tools and workflows. Instead, you can maximise the re-usability and reproducibility of your ROs.
Other details:
- Target users: Students, Research Communities
- Access types: Remote
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-7
Ethnic and Migrant Minority (EMM) Survey Registry
This service/tool brings together scattered information from quantitative surveys undertaken with EMM (sub)populations in Europe and beyond. It also offers detailed and structured metadata for each survey, where you can find, for example, information on EMMs’ integration and inclusion.
Other details:
- Target users: Funders, Students, Businesses, Research Networks, Research Managers, Researchers, Policy Makers, Research Communities, Research Projects, Research Groups, Research Organisations
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-8
OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard (CONNECT)
Put open science into practice with OpenAIRE CONNECT. This service provides community gateways that offers a suite of tools and a powerful search portal to help you implement your community’s open science practices.
Other details:
- Target users: Research Networks, Research Infrastructure Managers, Research Communities, Research Groups
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Free (conditionally)
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
PRISM: Peer Review Information Service for Monographs
The Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) is offered to publishers who have registered with Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The goal of this service is to improve transparency around quality assurance of open access (OA) book publishers and their publications. This is possible by providing information from OA book publishers; in particular, their peer-review procedures and their licencing policies.
Other details:
- Target users: Researchers
- Access types: Other
- Access modes: Other
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
DARIAH-Campus
This service is both a discovery framework and hosting platform, offering open, inclusive and high-quality learning materials in the digitally enabled arts and humanities.
Other details:
- Target users: Students, Research Networks, Researchers, Research Communities, Research Projects, Research Groups, Research Organisations
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
SIMBAD
The Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre (CDS) hosts SIMBAD, a database that provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects beyond our solar system. Moreover, the interface provides links with many other data services.
Other details:
- Target users: Researchers, Research Communities, Research Organisations
- Access types: Remote
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
Verbal Aggression Analyser (VA Analyser)
This service is designed to detect specific types of verbal attacks on Twitter against pre-defined targets of interest. The provided insights can be interesting for various stakeholders who want to monitor and/or examine verbal aggression.
Other details:
- Target users: Funders, Students, Researchers, Policy Makers, Research Communities, Research Organisations
- Access types: Remote
- Access modes: Other
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-7
eduVPN
This is a VPN-providing service that supports the different identity management systems used in higher education, including security assertion markup language (SAML). With this service, you can access your institute’s network using an encrypted connection.
Other details:
- Target users: Research Communities
- Access types: Remote
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
GBIF Portugal Occurrence Records
This service facilitates access to primary biodiversity data in Portugal and more globally. This information is accessible through a portal containing a list of occurrence data, statistics of the dataset and visuals.
Other details:
- Target users: Researchers, Research Communities
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
The EHRI Portal
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure offers a portal with access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held in institutions across Europe and beyond.
Other details:
- Target users: Research Communities
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Free
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
IFCA-CSIC Cloud Infrastructure
The Advanced Computing and e-Science research group of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria provides an infrastructure to operate an OpenStack-based cloud.
Other details:
- Target users: Students, Research Networks, Research Infrastructure Managers, Research Managers, Researchers, Research Communities, Research Projects, Research Groups, Research Organisations
- Access types: Remote
- Access modes: Paid, free (conditionally), peer reviewed
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-9
CSIC Cloud
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) provides an easy-to-use interface and an API for managing virtual machines, networks and storage, based in OpenStack and KVM.
Other details:
- Target users: Students, Researchers, Research Communities, Research Projects, Research Groups, Research Organisations
- Access types: Virtual
- Access modes: Paid, free (conditionally)
- Technology Readiness Level: TRL-8
Looking ahead
When we take a look at the above-listed resources, we see how computing infrastructure and data-sharing services – all available through EOSC – enable modelling of complex systems or scenarios in a variety of scientific domains.
EOSC is continuing to grow. Next month we will bring you more updates to the EOSC registry and introduce a new set of resources that can help you in your research endeavours.
In the meantime, you can find all of the resources listed above on the EOSC Marketplace.
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